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Author Information

• Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution

Budget

Caldecott Books

• A Sick Day for Amos McGee, 2011 Caldecott Winner
• Author Talks About Woodcuts

Destiny

Emailing Overdue Notices

Ebooks

Project Gutenberg 33,000 books--can be downloaded to ereaders, such as Kindle.

Goals

Internet

Safety

• ALA guidelines on internet safety and use for young children Especially for Children and their Parents

Search Engines

• List of search engines for kids with rated features and descriptions Savvy Little Searcher
• Video on Setting up a Google Custom Search

• Content farms and how they are affecting Google Search results. Washington Post article from January 2011.How Content Farms Beat Google
• How Google Searches from NY Times Feb. 2011 The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

Links

See how links are affecting search results Open Site Explorer

Library Policies and Procedures

Literature

• Literary Pathfinder This is a great wiki with 150 elementary books, all with several links such as author webpage, projects, and lesson plans. Organized alphabetically by title. Includes links to ebooks.
• Judy Moody Site contains information about Judy Moody, activities, and lesson plans for teachers. Judy Moody

Newbery books

Pathfinders

• Find out what other librarians are doing on pathfinder, copy their links. Pathfinderswap

Primary Sources

Research Skills

Notetaking

• Prepare for Notetaking-Debbie Abilock's graphic organizers. What do you know? Why do you care?
  Brainstorm what you know

Role of the Library in the School

• Lance Curry's latest research of effectiveness of libraries in school. The Third Colorado Study (2010)
• Study in video format on why high schools need to prepare students for demands of research so that they are successful in college Research Skills
• Flip It Article by David Loertcher. The library as a learning commons. Flip This Library!
• David Loertcher's Blog RSS Feed

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